Arbatian Mental Institution

Ch.20 End

Lola is in shock as the demon stays bent down on one knee. His right hand extended in a gentle manner as if he was asking for hers.

"Princess?", her mind was in a million places at that moment. She was ready for death, she was ready for anything else. This took her by surprise. The demon stands up, his eyes sealed shut with hard rust barbwire.

"It seems your memory has been altered. I am Delkatov, your personal bodyguard. And you are the princess. We've all been looking for you."

"The princess of what?"

"Of Hell my dear."

Lola gets a head rush and feels faint. She falls sideways onto the bed as Delkatov gently reaches out catching her in his arm. Other demons begin to crowd in the entrance. All of them bathed in blood and entrails.

"Princess, let me show you. It will all make sense to you, please.", he places his palm across her forehead.

Her vision blurs as lights in hyper speed blind past her sight. Everything looks cloudy for a moment, the picture becomes clearer and the sight of a pregnant woman is being chased through woods. She falls on her back and reaches up begging for mercy.

A man and woman walk up and mumble something Lola can't understand. The woman looks familiar. The man pulls out a cross and a book. The woman begins to chant throwing some kind of herb on the pregnant woman.

The pregnant woman screams and lays flat on the dirt. She holds her stomach crying. Wind begins to pick up and howl through the leaves, Lola feels as if she's actually there.

The pregnant woman screams as she goes into labor. Her eyes widen while transitioning into a darker color, into a pure black. She screams in a language Lola can't understand. The woman tosses more herbs on her. The man reads lines from a book, the pregnant woman screams leaning back. Her body writhes in pain then suddenly collapses on the floor.

The couple stare at her and begin to walk on when they hear an infants cry. They turn and see a baby crying on the dirt just underneath her dress. The woods grow loud with rustling and growling. The mom picks the baby up and runs with the dad.

Lola feels sick to her stomach. Things are slowly coming together like a jigsaw puzzle. Lola's real mom was killed by the woman who raised her.

Things flash forward to Lola seeing demons. Telling her mom about them her mom gave her advice about drawing them. At night her mother sneaks in grabbing the pictures and pricking her finger with a needle. She dabs a spot of blood on the photo trapping the demons.

Things forward once more to the night she was outside her room banging on the door as her mother screamed. A man bent over slashes her with a blade in a blood frenzy. He stands up and turns toward the door. Lola's heart stops when she sees his face. The lover she called Kiel.

He begins to walk towards the door hearing a cry from the other side when a demon flies in through the window. Terrified Kiel jumps through a neighboring window. Landing on a balcony he runs to jump off and trips slamming his head against a rock. He stumbles to his feet to scared to think about his injury and continues to run.

Cops find him a week later wandering down a road with no memory. He was completely unaware that he was wanted for the murder of 11 women.

Lola opens her eyes gasping for air. She sits up and begins to throw up. Delkatov pats her back as she wipes the drool and vomit from her mouth.

"I'm so confused! Kiel was a killer? Who was my real mom and why was she murdered? Who am I?"

"Your mother carried the seed of the dark master. You are his daughter, the princess of Hell. Your fake mother was trying to do an exorcism with her husband. Your real mother died in the process but you lived. They didn't have the heart to kill you. So they took you in. Raised you as their own. Your 'mother' was a demon hunter. Your 'father' never died in a car accident like she told you. He's still alive, still hunting. They knew how to trap us and knew we were getting close. They tricked you Lola. You weren't just giving us names you thought of, you knew it in your soul. We're here to save you. Now please come. We mustn't waste time."

Lola looks around the room she called home for so long, she didn't know what to think and found this all hard to believe. She stands up and walks out of her room as all the demons take a knee with their heads down.

Lola stares at the mass of demons and looks over to Delkatov, "Where are we going?"

Delkatov holds his head up and whispers, "Home to prepare. Heaven has declared war."